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$1.75 Honey

I have a friend who asked me if I'd heard of anyone getting $1.75/lb for their honey. I have not. Has anyone else?

I do have another friend who told me today that a western honey buyer offered to pay him $1.50 for his honey, to be picked up in northern NY. What w/ the price of fuel, that would make the investment in the honey more than $1.75. Wouldn't it? The honey producer and the honey buyer are about 1,000 miles apart.

Five gallons of honey/ 60 lbs of honey at $120.00 per comes out to $2.00 per lb. Not 67 cents. So $24.00/gallon is correct and 67cents per pound is incorrect. I don't know how you got the 67 cents/lb idea. Maybe you shouldn't use a calculator.

Some? How many? I have been thinking about going up to $2.50/lb. $150.00/ bucket.

I only harvested 5 drums this year so my supply is limited. So you can take my comments with a grain of salt. I obviously retail most of my honey but offered pails at $140. I only sold a handful because I decided to stop selling anymore this year as it would have wiped out my supply. The demand was there.

I had one guy who wanted up to 1,400 lbs in pails at that price. I told him I couldn't do that volume. I have sold some to others at that price. I have been moving the honey retail in small containers quite fast and obviously make more money that way.

stick together on the price. You are better to produce less and sell it more expensive. Less work more playtime and more money. Look at gas prices... I don't know about you guys down in the states , but here it's 1.40$ a litre , but Canada hasn't sold a drop less....